I have received and read your article. I think the
subject was well chosen and has been correctly elaborated,
but the article will need some polishing up. There is far
too much—how shall I put it?—-“agitation”, which is out
of place in an article on a theoretical subject. Either you
yourself, I think, ought to work it over, or we could do it.

Many thanks for your news of Kostrov. Please ask Avel
to write and inform us more frequently. This is important,
because we know nothing.

Could you obtain and translate Kostrov’s Georgian
articles
(a) against the liquidators,
(b) on the national question,
for cultural-national autonomy,
(c) the most important,
against Plekhanov’s preface to
Arkomed,[1] against
Plekhanov’s defence of hegemony?

I am going away to Berne for a few weeks. On my return,
I hope, we shall discuss things again in our letters.